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Full Transcript: CHARLESTON, MERCURY, EXTRA:, Passed unanimously at 1.15 o’clock, P.M., December , 20th, 1860., AN ORDINANCE, To dissolve the Union between the State of South Carolina and other States united with her , under the compact entitled ”The Constitution of the United States of America.”, We, the People of the State of South Carolina, in Convention assembled, do declare and ordain, , and it is hereby declared and ordained,, , That the Ordinance adopted by us in Convention, on the twenty-third day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, whereby the Constitution of the Untied States of America was ratified, and also, all Acts and parts of Acts of the General Assembly of this State, ratifying amendments of the said Constitution, are hereby repealed; and that the union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the name of ”The United States of America,” is hereby dissolved., The, Union, is, Dissolved!, [docket], We are out of the Union and , once more independent - , I rejoice at it., Love to all, Yours Teddie, This was sent me by my old school , friend Teddie Hankston of Charleston. , I visited him again after the war , but he had no kick to wake , as to the result, This has served its purpose and , may be destroyed